Do you write articles for fun or professionally? Once you have written an article on a certain topic do you go on to another? Most people who write either for fun or profit generally only write a very small number of articles on any particular topic before moving onto the next.
This could be a very costly mistake! To write one article you have done the time consuming research and can more likely than not write several articles on the topic. This article will discuss how you can use this research to your advantage and generate money from several articles all related to the same topic or theme.
Whether you write for pleasure or for profit there is a definite market out there for well written content, you could sell your writing and generate either extra income or even a full time income stream! If you have written unique content that you have researched and developed yourself don't sell the full rights to that work to someone else.
You can sell your work with non-exclusive rights which means you will always retain the ownership of the content and are just selling publication rights to the article. In effect this means that you can sell the same article to as many people as are willing to buy it without having to change the content in any way!
Marketing your articles this way is one of the fastest and easiest ways to monetize your writing.
Have you ever considered writing an e-book? If you have a collection of articles that all relate to the same topic or theme, you have the basis for an e-book. E-books are really just a collection of articles; they are just formatted differently.
E-books are rapidly growing in popularity with readers, and the benefit for you, the author is that they are sold in the same way as paper based books - you could sell literally thousands of copies of a popular e-book.
Another way to monetize your articles is to take a collection that are written about a particular topic and use them to create a learning course or how to style website. The possible topics are endless: Internet and computer skills courses, a how to guide for a particular craft or hobby idea, a lifestyle course, self help advice, your imagination will be your only limit.
Many people now days are using the internet to learn new skills and there are numerous websites that cater to this trend offering short courses or e-courses. You can make use of your writing and market it in several different ways; firstly you offer your content for free and make your income from advertising on the site.
Secondly you could charge people a small fee to access the content of the site, or finally you could combine your information into an e-course and sell it on to another company or site owner.
With a little research and imagination you can monetize your articles and no matter if you are a professional writer or someone who writes as a hobby, by implementing some of the ideas outlined here you will be able to increase the income you make from your writing.
